<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23458]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it\'s sitting down making a quilt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it\'s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12437]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39722]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,  By winding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,  By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32042]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game and we broke down a little in the second. We played right into their hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! Solid men of Boston, make no long orations! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! Solid men of Boston, make no long orations!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, Concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have five times as many customers as we did three years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have five times as many customers as we did three years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to defend every idea, ... I am a robber of ideas, but for there to be ideas, you have to have discussion. If everyone takes my word for the truth, you can't do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared to after because of all the media. Later, it's more about the ceremony itself and not the films.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52550]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;  Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,   Gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;  Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,   Gives genius a better discerning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it soon cut off, and we fly away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23970]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, Doth burn the heart to cinders, where it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, Doth burn the heart to cinders, where it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8178]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is really an un-Christian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian, love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what-not: it was the work of love which was his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All three of us had a vision for an exceptional opera program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28885]]></link><description><![CDATA[All three of us had a vision for an exceptional opera program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48908]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56112]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?  To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1724]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?  To view each love one blotted from life's page,   And be alone on earth as I am now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13043]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/343]]></link><description><![CDATA[...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pardon him as God shall pardon me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pardon him as God shall pardon me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16476]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17239]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66568]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never find fault with the absent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never find fault with the absent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirsin your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirsin your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness thatdrapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightfulconditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true tothem, your world will at last be built.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22746</guid></item></channel></rss>